[Lazarus] A few hacky patches (resent)

Alexander Klenin klenin at gmail.com
Fri May 22 04:05:15 CEST 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:38, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> I see no problem with licensing e.g. the Find dialog under GPL when used in
> building the IDE, and under LGPL when used in other applications as part of
> the LCL.

Sure, but who has the right to make this decision?
And generally, GPL requires derived works to be GPL also.
Usually, IDE depends on LCL and not vice versa, so this is not a problem.
But if enough code migrated from IDE to LCL,
that would IMHO make the latter derived work...

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin




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